Introducing…the Random Pentathlon. The pentathlon is an athletic contest comprising five different events. The Random Pentathlon features five challenging random theme “events” - you will draft five players representing each one:

Random Postseason Teams: Draft one player from each of five randomly drawn, nonexclusive postseason teams from the World Series era (1903-2012).

Random Last Place Teams: Draft one player from each of five randomly drawn, nonexclusive teams that finished last in their respective leagues or divisions (1885-2012).

Random Birthdays: Draft one player born on each of five randomly selected calendar dates.

Random Years: Draft one player from each of five years from the SLB epoch (1885-2012) selected at random.

Baseball-Reference.com Random Pages*: Five pages selected at random by the Baseball-Reference.com “Random Page” feature. Any player cited on Baseball-Reference pages for teams, leagues, leaders, fielding, etc., is eligible. *Player profile pages must present at least five (5) eligible SLB seasons.

RULES:-$120M cap
-WIS Standard 24 team league (4/4/4 each league)
-No DH, WW, AAA, Trades, or Clones
-No twisting – random selections that are year specific must come from that year
-Injuries on
-Use any ballpark
-Live play okay, not required

Posted by reddtrain on 12/21/2012 11:40:00 AM (view original):Cool concept, but I'm on the fence. Cap is too large for my personal comfort.

Yeah, I wasn't sure about that myself...I could see some of the draws maxing out at $110M. My thinking was that the Random Playoff and Year draws would be solid enough that it would cancel out some of the potentially weaker Birthdays, Last Place, and BR draws, maybe forcing some into a "stars and scrubs" approach. I don't know. $120M seemed reasonable given the sample draws I tried but if the overwhelming consensus is it's too high, I'm open to lowering it. Thanks for looking, reddtrain.